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Five years ago Charlie Chaplin settled with his family, in Switzerland and self-exile, a bitter man. Convinced that he had been persecuted by McCarthyism, Red-liner Chaplin decided to deprive the U.S. of one of the few authentic geniuses produced by the movies. Last week a new Chaplin film, A King in New York, which may never be shown in the U.S., had its world première in London. Cries of "Good old Charlie!" and "Isn't he sweet?" greeted Chaplin from a dressy charity crowd in diamonds and dinner jackets. But though the crowd liked Chaplin...
Topping their stage romance with a real-life courtship, Comedienne Judy Holliday and Leading Man Sydney Chaplin, stars of Broadway's Bells Are Ringing, last week took off for Europe to tell the good news to Sydney's famed father, Cinemime Charles Chaplin...
...Brother, Blockheads) ; of the effects of a paralytic stroke he had in September, 1956; in North Hollywood. Georgia-born, bulbous Ollie sang on showboats while studying law, eventually wended his way via vaudeville villainry to Hollywood where he met (1919) skinny, sad-eyed Stan Laurel, onetime understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Two of America's few genuinely creative comedians, interested more, as Hardy once said, in "human appeal" than in "straight clownish antics," they teamed up in 1927, and as bumblingly chivalrous misfits strove ineffectually to solve hopeless problems (e.g., while struggling to get a grand piano over a narrow...
...couple of weeks after he announced pettishly that he did not care whether his new comedy A King in New York would be shown in the U.S. ("Over there, one is not free to say what one wishes. In Europe it is different"), famed Filmmaker Charles (City Lights) Chaplin, having voted himself a vacation from both business and petulance, posed smilingly with his wife Oona and five of their six children on a footbridge near their vacation villa on the French Riviera...
Born. To Charles Spencer (Charlie) Chaplin, 68, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 32, daughter of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill: a fourth daughter, sixth child (his tenth); in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Jane. Weight...